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A light-activated ‘plasmonic’ catalyst, made from abundant elements, produces as much hydrogen from ammonia as do the most-used heat-activated catalysts based on a rarer element, suggesting a strategy for sustainable chemical production.

Prophet and loss.

New technologies might provide more potent or broader immunity — but will have to fight for market share.

Three charts from the world of research, selected by Nature editors.

For the first time, astronomers have identified a planet outside the Solar System using ‘microlensing’ data from a telescope in space.

Snippets from Nature’s past.

Funds for a major genomics programme in Africa will run dry this year. A chance to address global inequity in health-related genomics by building on the success of this initiative must not be missed.

For young immigrant women like me, the pressures of early career research are even greater than for most. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Caffeine blocks a brain receptor to stave off the drowsy feeling — but it can return with a vengeance. Plus, pandemic school closures cost children one-third of a year’s learning and how machines could spot alien signals that humans miss.

Maths made the modern world — and everyone stands to gain from the acknowledgment that the world made maths.

Floods followed by droughts, or droughts followed by floods, will rise in frequency in a warming world.

Ichthyologist Lucia Rapp Py-Daniel preserves and catalogues the fish of Amazonian waters as their numbers fall because of industrial development.

The discovery of bacterial compounds that have antifungal properties opens up opportunities for the development of agents that protect crops from a devastating disease.

A slew of remarkable trials have raised the profile of a class of weight loss drugs, but there are concerns about cost and weight stigma.

How funders can remove the systemic barriers faced by mothers in academia. Plus, voles’ relationships don’t need the ‘love hormone’ and all about the three vaccines poised to fight respiratory syncytial virus.